MARCH 2008 No. 169

HEADLINES On the start line, Gibby psychs out another opponent.

NEIL GIBB TRIUMPHS AGAIN AT NOSTALGIA DRAG MEET Kwinana Feb 2008 Neil Gibb has concreted his claim as KING of Dial-Your-Own drag racing at the annual Nostalgia Drags meet recently held at the Kwinana Motorplex strip. Gibby is a multiple winner of this event and has beaten all comers.

Dial-Your-Own requires consisten-cy in the vehicles and driver’s per-formance. Neil and the triple carbed Y-Blocked T combo has all the con-sistency needed. Just bolt on the roll cage, safety belts and front wind deflector then run what you brung. While Gibby doesn’t suffer shortness in breathe due to the G forces of acceleration, he still sure has a lot of fun.

Address: Unit 1, 12 Cusack Rd, MALAGA. WA. Ph (08)9249 9632General meetings: 3rd Sunday of each month at 7.30pm. Visitors welcome.President: Bob Mulder Ph.0407040341 Vice Presidents: Brian French 9377 7837 Alan Barton 9448 0110 . Secretary: Garry Bryant 9257 1973 Treasurer: Ian Swinbourne 9300-8506ASRF Delegate: Jeff Ewence 9339 4337TAC Delegate: Peter Hunter 9445 2493WAHRP Delegate: vacant, representative required.Management Committee: Executive committee (above) and B. French, Dave Krause. All members welcome to meetings. Get involved or get left behind.Social Committee: D. Krause, A.Lawrence , Maurie Searle, Ian Swinbourne, Jim CandidoStrata Committee: Neil Gibb, Jeff Ewence, .Eric Warren Klaxon Editor: Eric Warren 9574 6440 or fax 9444 3299 or email on rodder@gidgenet.com.au Deadline is 7 days before the meeting. Klaxon Distribution: Peter Hunter 9445 2493.CONTRIBUTORS: Allan Rossi, Garry Curnow, Joe Carbone, Neil GibbCOVER: Neil Gibb at the Nostalgia Drags.

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Editorial From The World’s Finest Mind.Howdy doody once again my learned friends.

Just as I want to stick a full Sunday’s effort into the Willys coupe, panic strikes as I realise it is Klaxon deadline time again. I am going to Sydney on Tuesday night so I lose three panic days and it’s back to the PC and here we are yet again to record the ins and outs of the lives and times of the WCSRC super heroes.

I would have to talk all about me again if not for the efforts of Allan Rossi in providing more photos and event information and also a few photos from cameras of Garry Curnow and Neil Gibb.

Besides a belated trip to the drags, without my camera, I have been away from other events in the last month, so I am relying on information from you guys to get information into the Klaxon. Thanks to Joe Carbone for a few shots from Big Al’s Poker Run too..

The last month has again been chockas with great rodding events particularly the drags and the Busselton Drive in Run.

Several members now have their rods in transit on the way to the east coast in preparation for the ferry trip over to Tasmaina for the Easter Nationals Rod Run. I hope the weather is fine and you all have a fantastic trip.

I have to stay back and save for a daughter’s wedding and work on the coupe , OH the ups and downs of life!

The coupe does have its modified radiator and the rebuilt fired and purred in only two seconds.. Gotta be happy about that.

Hey, have a pleasant Easter everyone, and take care everywhere, whether at Yvonne’s Moora Run, in Tassie , or in your kitchen with sharp things..

Extreme E.

Busselton Drive-In Run

Busselton Drive-In Run

Busselton Drive-In Run

Busselton Drive-In Run

Above: Barry Batten

Born Loser File Busselton Drive-in Weekend

29/02/08 – 3/3/08

BL 1 and BL 2 accompanied by rookie loser Gary (Blossom) Bry-ant hit the road south in the BL mobil for the Radiators 10th Anniversary Drive-in run over the Labour Day weekend.

Preparation consisted of making sure the eskies contained the cor-rect amount of beer and ice as we waited on Bloss for a mind-Friday getaway, an early start as Monday the BLs had work commitments. The scenic drive around Morley was a non –event this year. This didn’t deter the passengers from testing the temperature of the contents of the eskies, as Bl 1 sipped water, the crescendo of empty bottles grew loader as time passed. The pace seemed slow, taking 3 hrs to the Dawsville Bridge, the temperature cooling with every kilometre south, even experiencing light rain near Bunbury, than eventually booking into the Peppermint Park Village without mishap. Instead of pizza supplied by Radiators we opted for a delicious steak at one of the hotels in town. We then caught up with the other entrants who had arrived.

Saturday 1 March

BL 2 drew the long straw this time, in so getting the unit to him-self, Blossom and Bl 1 shared the adjoining room. Thank God for day-brake as Blosses snoring torture kept Bl 1 awake all night. After a light breakfast we prepared for the show and shine, a police escort had been arranged to keep the rods together especially as several sets of traffic lights needed to be negotiated before arriving at our destination, a park close to the beach near the busy town centre. Including a few late arrivals an impressive 52 cars were on display to the public, who for gold coin donation which went to charity could peruse the unique display of rods and customs. The BLs took the op-portunity to take in the busy Busselton town as did many others. Bus-selton was overrun with 0dd fellows, Pranksters plus families from Perth and Mandurah rod clubs. BL 2’s knees gave out returning back to

the car show, probably from an over-indulgence of pies and sweets, a timely passing of Gary and Helen King perked him up enough for him to hobble back to the park. The rest of the day flew by catching up with other rodders as they ar-rived. We were now ready to assemble for the drive-in, deciding to buy dinner there, the BLS struck out again, the food being virtually uneat-able. Plan A, we decided to arrive early to obtain a prime position near all the amenities and exit road for a quick getaway if needed, knowing how bad the movies can be. Of course, we never had any jackets as it was a very warm afternoon. To our dismay the sea breeze cam in from Antarctica, BL 2 and Blossom snuck down hear the redundant speakers which omitted a small light taking it in turn to hold their finger near it for warmth. BL 1 sat frozen on the tailgate until Alvan and the chip-munks finished. Plan A was then implemented, we bolted back to our units for a cold beer, followed by a hot shower.

Sunday, 2 MarchWe awoke to a beautiful morning accompanied by the smell of

burning bacon, NU-Breed were on cooking duties, which aroused our hunger pains after our debacle of the previous night. Breakfast went down well as we caught up on some of the ‘goss’ from the previous day.

After a pep talk we were supposed to line up in numerical order which never happens as most rodders cannot count past 28. At 9 o’clock sharp the first rod left, then the other cars left at 2-minute intervals. The cruise was a time trial with 20 minute breaks until we reached our destination. A questionnaire had also been provided, the BLs failed dismally on that count.

At the first check point at the Gunyulgup Galleries we all colluded with each other over the questions. The Yellingup Shearing Shed came as the second check point where many sampled the crafts on sale. As per usual we had been directing Frenchy in the wrong direction, another budding BL member.

Check point three, Wises Winery with magnificent views across Eagle Bay where many sampled the fine wines. The final stop being the Bush Shack Brewery. Gary took over as skipper as the 2 Bls sampled most of the beers on sale, the Strawberry and chocolate beers the favourites, all over 6% alcohol. Then sadly Bloss called a holt to it all,

we headed back to PeppermintVillage to pack, then head for home. Other hazy information to hand, West Coast cooked the BBQ-athon that evening for dinner. Expert chef Neville Anderson led the motley crew of cooks which included Gary Curnow, Clive Kitchener, Jim Longman, Alan Barton, Frenchy and Gibby, no outbreak of food poisoning has been reported, so all went well.

Thanks to Glen Armstrong and the Radiators for another excellent weekend. Clive Anckle

Left: the hectic social pace at Busselton sends Blossom to the cot for a kip, to dream of his 34 roadster with Why-Block motor.

Above: West Coast members diligently cooking the evening meal while ignoring the bullsh*t flowing from Barry Batten at left.

Left: Gibby with pony tail borrowed from Jeff E.?? Below l-r: AB having a Hat-Off contest with BB.Can’t see next (is it Clive?), Garry Cuboid Curnow and Neil silver tail Gibb in stylish WCSRC aprons, thanks to Jan French.

King of the Wings - Super Modified NationalsQuit Motorplex - Kwinana Beach

Speedway manager Gavin Migro, through Neil Gibb invited the ASRF to supply “open” street rods to parade the qualifying drivers of the super modified finals, which determined who would be King of the Wings. Drivers from America, Queensland, NSW, Victoria , South Australia and

Perth qualified for the finals. Thanks to Charlie Feralloro (28 Ford roadster, Clive Blowers (38 Chev tourer), Michael Morris (28 whippet tourer), Ron Andress (28 Ford roadster), Chris Coves (40 Chev truck), Dave Krause (28 Dodge ute), Ian and Mandy Swin-bourne (32 Ford 2-door tub), Neil Gibb (23 T-bucket) and Allan Rossi (32 Ford roadster) who paraded the finalist around the inside track be-fore the feature race.

I was fortunate enough to have Dave Myers, well known driver from Victoria who’s father is into street rodding in Tasmania, in my rod. Unfortunately Dave never came a place, but the racing was fast and furious needing 3 re-starts withy many other spectacular pile-ups, which eliminated 6 cars in the first few laps. After 30 action packed laps Jamie Farr is now King of the Wings. The ASRF has been doing the parades for 3 years so keep in mind

for next year about the same time open rods are needed. Benefits besides personal satisfaction, you meet famous drivers and see a great night’s racing for free. It’s a great night!!!!! Allan Rossi

Nostalgia Drags

Quit Motorplex 16.2.2008 Neil Gibb wins top Hot Rod

West Coast entered 5 rods for the popular drag fest first created three years ago by the crew from Crusin. The series is sponsored Australia wide by Shannons in conjunction with Crusin Magazine. Street rod-ders can compete under A.N.D.R.A. rules on a handy cap system reliv-ing an era when hot rods ruled the drag strip. This year, the organisers were more than happy with the 220 competitors entered, including about 30 rods. The West Coast crew consisted of Neville (Lars) Anderson 34 Ford coupe, Neil (Mr Consistent) Gibb 23 “T” bucket, Dave (Barman) Krause 34 Ford coupe, Des Thomas 27 “T” Tudor and Gary Curnow 32 Ford roadster. Gary was a late withdrawal after blowing his new 390ci motor during dyno tests, believed to be

Above: Gibby launches (?) the Y- block on the way to another win.

caused by a dropped sleeve. Neville Anderson, blown 350 chev, 34 coupe. In qualifying dur-ing the hot afternoon Lars’ 34 seemed to be lacking power, sens-ing distributor problems. Nev quickly rectified the cause only to red light in the second eliminations, running a personal best 11.260 seconds at 187 kph.

Des Thomas, 289 winsor powered 27 “T” Tudor.Des ran consistent mid 15s’ all day only to be beaten by Chris Bitmead (Hemi pow-ered 32 coupe in the elimi-nations. Des dialled in a 15.2 sec, running a respect-able 15.481 sec at 135 kph, a bad reaction time of .284 sec let Chris over the line running 13.793 at 146 kph.

Nostalgia Drags

Nev Anderson squaring up with wor-thy competitor Dexter Taylor

An experts word on drag strip photography. Cameras left at home, cameras with flat batteries (both counts to the editor), borrowed cameras and shit photographic skills are not the best ingredients for shooting photos at the drags. See the surrounding pre cropped and blurred shots. The photo on the next page shows an A-model roadster in a blurred racing shot when it is standing still. Thanks to Garry Curnow’s camera, and the unknown photographers for giving it a crack! A team effort! PS... Where are the compulsory boob shots?

Dave Krause, V6 Commodor powered 34 Hi-boy coupe.Dave’s little V6 of G.M. origins also run constant 15’s all day. Sensing the car running harder as the track and ambit temperature cooled, Dave made it to the third round eliminations. Trying consistently to improve his reaction times, pulled a cherry against Neil Gibb. The result 15.900 sec at 111.86 kph.

Neil Gibb, 292 Y-block Ford powered 23 ‘T’ bucket.Neil was under pressure to emulate or better his performance from last year after losing Top Hot Rod by .002 seconds. Mr consistent ran mid 16’s all day making it through to the run off against his old foe of Ray Barett in his 34 chev Tudor for the sec-ond consecutive year. Neil dialled in 16.450 seconds for the run off, pulling 16.433 at 131.66 kph. Technically both drivers broke out, the win going to Neil by .001 of a second.

Congratulations to Neil and Barbara on winning Top Hot Rod plus all the West Coast members for participating or supporting

the club on the day.

Just for the record, Dexter Taylor in his Donovan powered ‘A’ coupe in his last grudge match of the evening blasted a 10.99, the fastest time of any street rod at the meet.

Allan Rossi

Nostalgia Drags

Above: Blurred A Model quite still in the car park. Left: Drag racing leaves. ----Class photography at the drags!----

Greg Foulds sent in some shots of

his rare smicko 34 ute. Excellent detail in-cludes non-factory swages around the rear guards. Not even Lars has got

one of these!

Australia

1934 ford

Big Al’s Poker Run was held again this year (28th year ?) and started with the tradional show n shine besides the Swan River adjacent to the Burswood Casino. The committee this year enforced a non-American pre mid 70’s cut off date for entrants, primarily to keep the theme as it was always intended, for rods, vintage and classic American cars. The other reason was to try and eliminate the non thinkers in Commo-dores and rice burners that have caught the Police’s attention over the last few years with their hoonish behaviour. An official report of the run has not been forwarded to the Klaxon Publishing Works, so please enjoy the photographs sup-plied by the Duke of York, Joe Carbone.. Thanks Joe.

Big Al’s Poker Run 2008

Above: Classy vintage roadsters are always welcomed on Big Al’s Poker Run. There is a Top Vintage trophy available for the vintage guys who can mix beyond their own. This example is possibly a Buick.

Big Al’s Poker Run 2008

Big Al’s Poker Run 2008

Boyd Coddington Dies At 63............Lendary Southern California hot-rod builder and reality show host Boyd Coddington died Wednesday at a Whittier hospital at age 63, according to his La Habra-based company. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Coddington was the star of the TLC reality show "American Hot Rod," on which he and his crew overhaul classic cars recovered from junkyards and build custom hot rods from scratch. The icon of the hot-rod industry and Idaho native got his first car when he was 13 years old. He built his interest in car-building into a multimillion-dollar industry in Southern California, headquartered at his massive garage in La Habra. Coddington has built vehicles for celebrities such as Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny. His cars have won the "America's Most Beautiful Roadster" award seven times. He is a mamber of the Grand National Roadster Hall of Fame, the National Rod & Custom Museum Hall of Fame, the Route 66 Wall of Fame and the Street Rod Marketing Alliance Hall of Fame. He was named Hot Rod magazine's Man of the Year in 1988

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NEWS FLASH

Coming Events

March 16: Cranksters’ Pipeline CruiseMarch 21-24: WCSRC Easter Rod run to Moora.. Cate Cebrano will be there.. Contact Bob or Yvonne Mulder. 0407040341March 21-24:Tasmanian Rod Holiday, mini Nationals.May 2-4: Iggy Memorial Weekend. Conrodders Dean 9523 1932 Regular :Wanderer’s Pizza night. Mark Gryska 9418 3668. At Brandi Pizza, Rockingham Rd , Munster. 6.00pm. Second Thursday each Month.Regular: Frenchy and Jimbo’s Rodders breakfast at WCSRC at 8.30 every Saturday morning. Spread the word...

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TAC Inspections. 3rd Saturday of month. Call Chris if you need an inspection to make an appointment 9240 1500.

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CLASSIFIEDS: WANTEDGary Curnow wants a 39 ford gearbox and good 352/390 block.Parts for 1948 Fargo. John Ferrier. FOR SALEFour off 14”x 8” 5 spoke mags suit HQ/Chev. Av cond. Price negotiable (cheap cheap) Call Dave Krause on 9320-1940 ah.Two sets of ‘glass guards for 39 Chev... Michael Caleja.Front seat from 36 Chev, Contact BJ . loufiler@bigpond.net.au1937 Pontiac 4 door sedan nearly rust free body, very straight,,has Holden rear end and 350/350 combo [been sitting 10 years] 90% com-plete ring 95745217 for more details. Or ask Joe Carbone.